In December, from the 7th to the 11th, the Touchstone gyms will be giving members a great opportunity to check out a ton of new shoes from La Sportiva, Five Ten, and Evolve. The Demo week all in stock shoes will be 20% off! Come try on all the shoes and test them out on the great problems at the gym.

Dates and Times:

Monday December 7th – Sacramento Pipeworks 6-9pm

Tuesday December 8th – Diablo Rock Gym 6-8pm

Wednesday December 9th – Berkeley Ironworks 6-9pm

Thursday December 10th – Great Western Power Company 6-9pm

Friday December 11th – Mission Cliffs 6-9pm

Demo Shoe Models… (Subject to change on availability)

Evolve- Defy, Electra, Pontas and Optimus Prime for the demos, and possibly the new Predator



La Sportiva- Mantis, Solution, Muira VS, Speedster or Cobra




FiveTen- Dragon, Team, Velcro Anasazi, Wm’s Velcro Anasazi, Moccasym

Labels: Evolve, Five Ten, La Sportiva

In December, from the 7th to the 11th, the Touchstone gyms will be giving members a great opportunity to check out a ton of new shoes from La Sportiva, Five Ten, and Evolve. The Demo week all in stock shoes will be 20% off! Come try on all the shoes and test them out on the great problems at the gym.

Dates and Times:

Monday December 7th – Sacramento Pipeworks 6-9pm

Tuesday December 8th – Diablo Rock Gym 6-8pm

Wednesday December 9th – Berkeley Ironworks 6-9pm

Thursday December 10th – Great Western Power Company 6-9pm

Friday December 11th – Mission Cliffs 6-9pm

Demo Shoe Models… (Subject to change on availability)

Evolve- Defy, Electra, Pontas and Optimus Prime for the demos, and possibly the new Predator



La Sportiva- Mantis, Solution, Muira VS, Speedster or Cobra




FiveTen- Dragon, Team, Velcro Anasazi, Wm’s Velcro Anasazi, Moccasym

Labels: Evolve, Five Ten, La Sportiva

The Five Ten Team LE (Limited Edition) will be making a brief appearance at Berkeley Ironworks this month. Similar to the popular V10, this radical down turned shoe with a velcro closure, was inspired by the Jet7 Dragon and 5x shoes. Only 510 pairs of the Team LE were produced and the shoe will be not available again until spring of 2010.



Touchstone retail buyer, Patti Phillips, was able to get her hands on a size run of the great shoes from Five Ten and Berkeley Ironworks will be stocking the model in mid August.

Kevin Jorgenson, a Santa Rosa climber and high ball hardman, gives a great testimonial over at his blog.

Here's a video of Dave Graham doing the first ascent of Big Worm, a V13/14 at Mt. Evans Colorado in a pair of the Team LEs.

Dave Graham & Nalle Hukkataival bouldering in the mountains of Colorado... from chad greedy on Vimeo.

Labels: Dave Graham, Five Ten, Kevin Jorgenson

In just a few weeks Berkeley Ironworks is going to have their hands on some great new climbing shoes from the company that is arguably the best in the business. That's right, Five Ten has a new shoe, dubbed "Project" and it's HERE at Berkeley Ironworks to be sold to you.

As always, members will receive 10% off on this awesome new shoe. Here is a bit more about the new Five Ten "Project" shoe, straight from the company:

"Five Ten™ Project

The most sensitive climbing shoe ever built. Designed exclusively for overhanging rock, the Project™ features Five Ten’s ground-breaking Prehensile ™ technology that lets you use your feet like hands. Prehensile Technology allows climbers to grab like never before. Due to the unprecedented durability of new Stealth ™ Mystique™ rubber, the Project’s downturned soles are only 2mm thick (other climbing shoes have at least 4mm thick soles). If you’re climbing hard overhanging routes outdoors or at the gym, the Project is the best choice."

Stop in and check out our selection of climbing shoes, with 10% off I'm sure you can find something great.

Labels: Berkeley Ironworks, Climbing shoe, Discount, Equipment, Five Ten, members